
OPIR Systems Engineer
Chantilly, VAFull-time$99–225K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today
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The OPIR Systems Engineer will translate customer IT needs and future goals into plans by crafting and managing emerging satellite architectures for national security space programs. The role supports cloud migration, technology integration, and legacy-system modernization, and includes mentoring developers. The team works on satellite mission management challenges for national security space programs.
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OPIR Systems EngineerThe Opportunity: At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you’re a solutions architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge, skill, and experience to take on the toughest challenges in Satellite Mission Management?
As a OPIR Systems Engineer on our team, you'll translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting and managing emerging satellite architectures for national security space programs. With your guidance, we’ll help transform the way national space programs use technology, including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. What do you do next in a career where you’ve reached this level? You mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects.
Work with us and build the future of technology in national security space programs for the better.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
- Experience with national security satellite systems for SIGINT or GEOINT
- Experience with large DoD or IC satellite ground systems, including OPIR
- Experience with mission systems and interfacing with mission management planners and operators on a technical level
- Knowledge of mission needs and conveying capabilities of software platforms
- Top Secret clearance
- HS diploma or GED
Nice If You Have:
- Experience with satellite mission management systems
- Experience developing solutions in classified Cloud environments in the Intelligence Community or DoD
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Experience with Linux and Cloud technologies
- Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps software development
- Knowledge of automation techniques or artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.
Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,868 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$99–225K/yr
- Virginia median$120–184K/yr862 salary ranges
- US median$115–190K/yr8,798 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $162K, is 7% above the Virginia median midpoint ($152K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,102 open Systems Engineer jobs in Virginia and 11,868 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (9,801 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 4,573 of the 11,868 open Systems Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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